March 1st
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Bosnia-Herzegovina)* (See Below)
Saint David's Day (Wales) * (See Below)
Samiljeol (South Korea) * (See Below)
Beer Day (Iceland) * (See Below)
Flag Day (St. Lucia) * CLICK HERE
Flag Day (Mali) * CLICK HERE
Eight Hours Day (Tasmania)
Omizutori, Water-Drawing Festival (Japan)
Labour day (Western Australia)
Martenitsa (Bulgaria)
Martisor (Romania and Moldova)
Admission Day (Nebraska)
Admission Day (Ohio)
Town Meeting Day (Vermont)
Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day
Share a Smile Day (United States)
Peace Corps Day (Historical) a.k.a. Peace Corp Birthday
National Pig Day (United States)
Self Injury Awareness Day
National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day
Plan a Solo Vacation Day
Refired, Not Retired Day
World Compliment Day
Peanut Lovers Day
National Horse Protection Day
Anniversary of the Land Mine Ban
Feriae Marti in honor of Mars (Roman Empire)
Matronalia in honor of Juno (Roman Empire)
Roman New Year * CLICK HERE
Medieval European New Year (Occasionally) * CLICK HERE
Renewal of the Vestal fire (Roman Empire)
Last Day (4 or 5) of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) (Bahá'í Faith), days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
Christian Feast Day of Abdecalas
Christian Feast Day of Albin (Catholic Church)
Christian Feast Day of David
Christian Feast Day of Monan (Catholic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Swidbert (Catholic Church)
* Noise Pop Music Festival 2010, San Francisco, California, USA February 23 – March 1 (7of7)(2010)
* Independence Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina), celebrating independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992
* Saint David's Day, also known as Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant (Wales and Welsh communities)
* Samiljeol (South Korea), Also Known As March 1st Movement Remembrance Day
* Beer Day, marked the end of beer prohibition in 1989 (Iceland)
Toast of The Day
"To the Land we Love, and the Love we Land!"
-Traditional Welsh (St. David's Day - March 1st , patron saint)
Drink of The Day
Irish Yorsh
10 part Dry Stout
1 part Irish Whiskey
(Ratio varies to taste)
Mix thoroughly, Drink quick.
Wine of The Day
Tinhorn Creek 2008 Merlot
Style - Merlot
Okanagan Valley
$20
Beer of The Day
Western Hemisphere
Hop God
Brewer - Nebraska Brewing Co. ; Papillion, Nebraska, USA
Style - American-Belgian
- Admission Day (Nebraska), March 1, 1867
Eastern Hemisphere
Egils Polar
Brewer - Olgerdin Egill Skallagrímsson ; Reykjavik, Iceland
Style - International-Style Lager
- In Celebration of Beer Day in Iceland (National) AKA Bjórdagurinn
Joke of The Day
Three Irishmen are sitting in the pub window seat, watching the front door of the brothel over the road.
The local Methodist vicar appears, and quickly goes inside.
"Will you look at that?" says the first Irishman. "And didn't I always say what a bunch of lying hypocrites they are?"
No sooner are the words out of his mouth than a Rabbi also goes inside.
"There's another bunch who try to fool everyone with their pious preaching and funny little hats," says the second Irishman.
They continue drinking their beer roundly condemning the vicar and the rabbi when they see their Catholic Priest knock on the door and go inside.
"Oh, how sad!" says the third Irishman. "One of the girls must have died!"
Quotes of the Day
1
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's simply that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
- Brendan Behan
2
"I never met a pub I didn't like."
-Pete Slosberg, Founder of Pete's Brewing Company, the brewery was discontinued on March 1st, 2011.
3
“Booze, broads, and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?”
Harry Caray (March 1st, 1914 – February 18th, 1998), an American baseball broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.
Whiskey of The Day
$75
March Observances
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month
Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month
Berries and Cherries Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Child Life Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness Month (Different sponsor than National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
Credit Education Month
Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month
Employee Spirit Month
Exotic Winter Fruit, Leeks and Green Onions Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
National Expect Success Month
Holy Humor Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Expect Success Month
International Ideas Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
International Women's Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month
March for Babies (March and April)
Music In Our Schools Month
National Athletic Training Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Color Therapy Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Different sponsor than Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
National Craft Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Irish-American Heritage Month
National Kidney Month
National Kite Month (3/31-4/30)
National March Into Literacy Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month
National Nutrition Month
National On-Hold Month
National Optimism Month
National Peanut Month
National Social Work Month
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month
Optimism Month
Play-the-Recorder Month
Poetry Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Red Cross Month
Save Your Vision Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month
Social Workers Month
Spiritual Wellness Month
Steroid Abuse Prevention Month
Supply Management Month
Umbrella Month, Natl
Vulvar Health Awareness Month
Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Youth Art Month
Observances this Week
National Cheerleading Week, First Week in March
National Ghostwriters Week, First Week in March
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week, First Week in March
Universal Human Beings Week, First Week in March
Festival of Owls Week, First Friday to Sunday in April (festivalofowls.com)
American Council on Education, First Friday to Tuesday in March (acenet.edu)
Historical Events on March 1st
(86 BC) Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus.
286 Roman Emperor Diocletian raises Maximian to the rank of Caesar.
293 Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesares, thus beginning the Tetrarchy.
317 Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares
492 St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
705 John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
752 BC Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht
1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus
1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes
1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten
1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen
1457 The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
1562 Blood bath at Vassy, General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
1565 Portuguese soldier Estácio de Sá founds the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV
1593 The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
1628 Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
1633 Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
1642 Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States, 1st incorporated American city.
1692 Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1700 Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753.
1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)
1781 The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized
1790 The first United States census is authorized.
1792 US Presidential Succession Act passed
1796 1st National Meeting in the Hague
1803 Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
1805 Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed & Non-Intercourse Act signed
1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500 Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty
1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
1815 Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1836 A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
1840 Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France.
1845 President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
1852 Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
1854 German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears, two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again
1859 Present seal of SF adopted (its 2nd)
1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1864 Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree
1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana
1867 Howard University, Washington DC, chartered
1867 Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time
1870 Marshal F.S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the War of the Triple Alliance.
1871 J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia
1872 Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
1873 E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883
1876 Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington Conn)
1878 First winter ascent of Aneto
1879 Library of Hawaii founded
1886 The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
1890 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published
1893 Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador
1893 Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1896 Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War (80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians)
1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1904 England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead v Australia
1909 1st US university school of nursing established, Univ of Minn
1910 The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people, 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die..
1912 Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, NYC
1913 1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, ND
1913 Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment)
1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
1914 The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
1917 1st federal land bank chartered
1917 The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
1919 March 1st Movement begins, Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy
1920 Buriat ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
1921 Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England
1921 Rwanda ceded to England
1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied, killing railroad striker
1924 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
1927 Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank
1928 Paul Whiteman & orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records
1932 The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (20 months), is kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12.
1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria
1934 Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
1936 The Hoover Dam is completed.
1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
1937 Gov Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
1937 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day
1939 A Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
1939 Trans-Canada Air Lines (forerunner of Air Canada) begins transcontinental operations (between Vancouver and Montreal).
1940 12th Academy Awards "Gone with the Wind," R Donat & V Leigh win
1940 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published
1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book
1941 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tenn
1941 Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner
1941 German troops invade Bulgaria
1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp
1941 W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S..
1941 Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers in World War II.
1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat
1942 Baseball decides that players in milt can't play when on furlough
1942 J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chicago
1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews
1942 Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
1943 Battle of Bismarck Sea, World War II, begins.
1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns
1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic
1945 British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten
1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi
1945 FDR announces success of Yalta Conference
1945 Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander
1945 US infantry regiment captures Mönchengladbach
1946 British government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years
1946 Panama accepts its new constitution
1946 The Bank of England is nationalised.
1947 The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
1949 Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ
1949 The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals
1950 Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa
1950 Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data and sentenced to 14 years (London).
1950 USSR issues golden rubles
1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns
1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1953 Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
1953 KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins
1953 WJZ-AM in NYC becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission
1953 WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 In spring training, Ted Williams breaks his collarbone
1954 The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954 Puerto Rican nationalists attack (fire upon) the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
1954 Rebellion during visit of pres Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die
1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War
1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48
1955 KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks, AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 Pakistan v India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw
1956 Formation of the National People's Army
1956 The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 perfs
1957 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
1958 Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
1958 Gary Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260
1958 West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl v Pakistan
1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament
1961 Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall
1961 President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1961 Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
1962 American Airlines 707 plunges into Jamaica Bay in New Yorkon take off, killing 95
1962 K-Mart opens
1962 US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada
1963 200,000 French mine workers strike
1964 Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
1965 Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misconduct
1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec)
1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
1966 Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface, 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus).
1967 Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain
1967 House of Reps expels Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116)
1967 Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London
1967 WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast
1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return
1968 Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting
1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed
1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect
1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 perfs
1969 After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts
1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
1969 NY Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires
1969 Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast
1970 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater
1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released
1970 End of US coml whale hunting
1970 Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
1970 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
1971 A bomb explodes in a men's room in the United States Capitol, the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM
1971 President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
1972 Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth"
1972 David Rabe's "Sticks & Bones," premieres in NYC
1972 KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province.
1972 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points
1973 Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens
1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November
1974 Ian & Greg Chappell make 264 partnership v NZ cricket at Wellington
1974 Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Watergate scandal.
1975 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
1975 Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
1977 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles
1978 "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performances
1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
1979 "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 557 performances
1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
1980 Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater
1980 Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit
1980 Snow falls in Florida
1981 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 perfs
1981 Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his 65-day hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1982 5 die as ski lift malfunctions a Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees
1982 5th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1982 NY Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
1983 Tamara McKinney becomes 1st US woman skier to win the World Cup
1983 Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people
1984 Landsat 5 & ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear & #5943 Lovi
1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA
1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran
1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile
1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist
1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981
1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion
1989 Julianne Philips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
1989 The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
1990 Benin nullifies its constitution
1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay
1990 Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
1991 US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco NYC after 41 perfs
1992 "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40)
1992 Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle US record (54.48 secs)
1993 Authorities in Waco, Texas negotiate with Branch Davidians
1993 George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of NY Yankees
1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks
1994 36th Grammy Awards, I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins
1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
1995 37th Grammy Awards, All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow
1995 Belgium ends military conscript
1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
1995 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 281
1995 Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
1995 Yahoo! was incorporated.
1996 Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory
1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced
1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England
1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV
1998 "Art," opens at Royale Theater NYC
1998 Australian Ladies Masters Golf
2000 Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
2000 The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
2002 The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 miles) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (9.5 tons).
2002 The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€).
2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
2003 Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2003 The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2004 Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
2004 Terry Nichols is convicted of state murder charges and being an accomplice to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
2005 The death penalty for juveniles is revoked in United States.
2006 English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
2006 Tarja Halonen is inaugurated as President of Finland for the second and last time.
2007 "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots.
2007 Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
2008 The Armenian police clashed with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections of 2008 killing at least 10 people
2012 Euro zone unemployment reaches historical high of 10.7%
2013 The 2013 US budget sequestration comes into effect
2013 14 people are killed in the Lahad Datu standoff between Malaysian government and rebel forces
2014 Movie 43 wins the 34th Golden Raspberry Awards
2014 29 people are killed & 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China
2014 US President Barack Obama warns Russian President Vladimir Putin over involvement in Ukraine
2016 Forbes Richest List released, Bill Gates No. 1 with $75 billion, number of world's billionaires shrinks to 1,810
2016 Two Guatemalan military officers are convicted of sexual slavery during country's civil war - first ever prosecution of sexual slavery during an armed conflict
2016 Gene for grey hair (IRF4) discovery announced by Scientists from University College London in "Nature Communications"
2016 South Korean opposition MPs set a world record for longest filibuster - 9 days (192 hours) trying to block anti-terror bill
Born on March 1st
40 Martial, Latin poet (d. 102)
772 Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow
1432 Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (d. 1455)
1445 Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (d. 1510)
1449 Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)
1456 King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1516)
1456 Wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516)
1474 Angela Merici, Italian nun (d. 1540)
1494 Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter
1528 Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria
1547 Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)
1597 Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (d. 1652)
1607 Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer
1610 Johann B Schup (Schuppius), German poet/historian
1610 John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685)
1630 Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, baptized
1657 Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (d. 1740)
1683 Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737)
1690 Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
1703 Dieudonne Raick, composer
1709 Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
1711 Peregrinus Pogl, composer
1732 William Cushing, 2nd Chief Justice of the United States. (d. 1810)
1734 Pieter Valck[x], South Netherland sculptor
1760 François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
1769 François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (d. 1796)
1771 Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer
1779 Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer
1780 Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-general of Neth Indies (1826-30)
1781 Javiera Carrera, Chilean aristoctratic woman, sister of José Miguel Carrera (d. 1862)
1788 Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
1799 Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer
1807 Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898)
1810 Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (Concert in F Minor) (d. 1849)
1811 Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878
1812 Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852)
1817 Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882)
1820 George Davis, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1896
1820 Richard Redhead, composer
1821 Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
1822 Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1822 Charles Champion Gilbert, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 John Thomas, composer
1828 James Fleming Fagan, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1828 Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright
1831 Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer
1835 Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade)
1837 Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)
1837 William Dean Howells, American writer (Atlantic), historian, and politician (d. 1920)
1838 Gabriele dell' Addolorata, [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest
1841 Blanche Kelso Bruce, Virginia, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881)
1841 Romualdo Marenco, composer
1842 Nicholaos Gysis, Greek painter (d. 1901)
1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-born American sculptor (1907 $20 gold piece) (d. 1907)
1852 Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (d. 1923)
1856 Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw)
1858 Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918)
1860 Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader
1863 Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (d. 1930)
1864 Rebecca Lee, 1st black woman to get a medical degree
1865 Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
1865 Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java)
1871 Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
1874 Jean de Merode (Marie-Louise B Courtenay), Princess of Neth
1876 Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president (d. 1942)
1878 Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer
1880 Julian Myrick, promoter of junior tennis
1880 Lytton Strachey, British writer (Benson Medal 1923) (d. 1932)
1882 Ida Moore, Altoona Ks, actress (Mr Music, Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki)
1883 Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great (Yale)
1885 Lionel Atwill, English/US actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum)
1886 Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (Erasmus Prize 1960) (d. 1980)
1888 Ewart Astill, English cricketer (d. 1948)
1889 Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960)
1890 Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Zonnestral)
1892 Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer
1892 Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (Rashomon in Kappa) (d. 1927)
1893 Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968)
1893 Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy)
1895 G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of famer (elected 1958)
1896 Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (d. 1960)
1896 Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942)
1899 Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (d. 1972)
1900 Donald Keith Falkner, singer
1900 Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM
1900 Yorgos Seferis (Seferi dis), Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi)
1903 Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist)
1904 Glenn Miller, American bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood) (d. 1944)
1904 Paul Hartman, American actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction) (d. 1973)
1905 Doris Hare, Welsh actress (d. 2000)
1905 Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom)
1906 Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of North Vietnam (d. 2000)
1907 Lois Moran, Pitts, actress (Mom-Waterfront)
1909 Richard de Guide, composer
1909 Robert Selby Taylor, bishop
1909 Terence De Marney, England, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo)
1910 Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1910 David Niven, English actor (Casino Royale, The Pink Panther) (d. 1983)
1911 Harry Golombek, chess grandmaster
1912 Boris Chertok, Polish-born Russian rocket designer
1912 Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, archbishop of Toronto (d. 2003)
1913 Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photogrpaher/collector
1913 Ralph Ellison, American writer (d. 1994)
1914 Archibald J Gumede, S Afr ANC member/chairman (UDF)
1914 Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998)
1914 Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast)
1917 Dinah Shore, Winchester Tenn, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
1917 Robert Lowell, American poet (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean) (d. 1977)
1918 Gladys Noon Spellman, American politician (d. 1988)
1918 João Goulart, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
1918 Roger Delgado, English actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June) (d. 1973)
1920 Alfred Grant Goodman, composer
1920 Harry Caray, baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs)
1920 Howard Nemerov, US, 3rd US poet laureate/novelist (Blue Swallows)
1920 Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
1921 Jack Clayton, film director
1921 Richard Wilbur, American poet (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep)
1921 Terrence "Cardinal" Cooke, American cardinal archbishop (d. 1983)
1922 William M Gaines, American publisher (MAD Magazine) (d. 1992)
1922 Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel (Israel, 1992-95), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Nobel 1994) (d. 1995)
1923 Bonita Granville, actress/producer (Perry Mason)
1923 Duncan White, Ceylon, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1948)
1923 Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer and editor (d. 1999)
1924 Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993)
1924 Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton, Sparta Wisc, Major USAF/astro (Apollo 18)
1925 Al Rosen, Spartanburg SC, 3rd baseman (AL MVP 1953)/NY Yankee pres
1926 Cesare Danova, Italian-born American actor (Garrison's Gorillas) (d. 1992)
1926 Pete Rozelle, American commissioner of the NFL (1960-89) (d. 1996)
1926 Robert Clary, French-born actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes)
1927 Harry Belafonte, American musician and activist (Buck & the Preacher)
1927 Lusine Amara, opera/concert singer
1927 Robert Bork, American legal scholar, nominated for supreme court
1928 Jacques Rivette, French film director
1928 Seymour Papert, South African mathematician
1929 Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
1929 Sonny James, singer (Young Love, Running Bear)
1930 C D Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's)
1930 Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980)
1930 Pierre Max Dubois, composer
1930 Raymond St Jacques, actor/director (Cotton Comes to Harlem, Mr Moses)
1932 Jacques Leduc, composer
1933 Istvan Lang, composer
1933 Joan Hackett, NY, actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony)
1933 Myrlie Evers, politician/commissioner (LA Board of Public works)
1934 Jim "Ed" Brown, Sparkman Ark, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1934 Riet (M J J) Roosen-van Pelt, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1935 Judith Rossner, author (Looking for Mr Goodbar)
1935 Robert Conrad (Conrad R Falk), American actor (Wild Wild West)
1936 Camille E Baly, St Maartens poet (Sonny)
1936 Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (d. 1997)
1936 Marion Farouk-Sluglett, political scientist
1936 Monique Bégin, French-Canadian politician
1937 Jed Allan, American actor (Days of our Lives, CC-Santa Barbara)
1938 Michael J(oseph) Kurland, US, sci-fi author (Infernal Device)
1939 Leo Brouwer, Cuban composer and guitarist
1939 Warren Davis, rocker (Monotones)
1940 David Broome, Show Jumper (world champ-1970)
1940 Ralph Towner, rocker (Oregon)
1940 Robert Grossman, American illustrator
1941 Donnie Walsh, American basketball coach and executive
1941 Joo Hyun, South Korean actor
1941 Michael L Lampton, Williamsport Pa, astronaut
1942 Jerry Fischer, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1942 Peter Guber, producer (Flashdance)
1942 Richard Bowman Myers, American soldier, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1943 Akinori Nakayama, Japanese gymnast
1943 Benjamin W Jipcho, Mt Elgon Kenya, 3K steeplechase (Oly-silver-1972)
1943 Franz Hohler, writer
1943 Gil Amelio, American venture capitalist
1943 José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer
1943 Mauro Checcoli, Italy, 3 day equestrian (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 Piet Veerman, Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Cats-Sailin' Home)
1943 Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
1943 Richard H. Price, American physicist
1943 Wolfgang Scheidel, German DR, luge (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 Dirk Benedict, Helena Mont, actor (A-Team, Battlestar Galactica)
1944 John B Breaux, American politician, former U.S. Senator from Louisiana (Rep-D-LA, 1972-88)
1944 John Napier, London, set designer (Royal Shakesphere Company)
1944 Mike d'Abo, English singer (Manfred Mann)
1944 Roger Daltrey, English musician (The Who) and actor (Tommy)
1945 Dirk Benedict, American actor (The A-Team, Battlestar Galactica)
1946 Elvin Bethea, American football player
1946 Gerry Boulet, French-Canadian singer (d. 1990)
1946 Lana Wood (Svetlana Gurdin), American actress (Diamonds are Forever)
1946 Tony Ashton, Blackburn England, rocker (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1947 Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter (Thicke of the Night, Growing Pains)
1948 Burning Spear (Winston Rodney), Jamaican reggae singer and musician
1948 Norman Connors, singer (You Are My Starship)
1949 Sido Martens, Dutch guitarist/singer/mandolin player (Fungus)
1950 Shahid Israr, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (in one Test v NZ 1976)
1951 Barbara DeAngelis, talk show hostess (Barbara DeAngelis Show)
1951 Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent
1952 Alice Ritzman, Kalispell MT, LPGA golfer (1995 Rochester Intl-5th)
1952 Brian Winters, American basketball player and coach
1952 David Allen Barr, Kelowna BC, PGA golfer (Atlanta Golf Classic)
1952 Leigh Matthews, Australian rules footballer and coach
1952 Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1952 Steven Barnes, American writer
1953 Bandula Warnapura, cricketer (1st Sri Lanka Test captain)
1953 Richard Bruton, Irish politician and economist
1953 Ron Howard, Oklahoma, actor/director (American Graffiti, Happy Days)
1954 Catherine Bach, American actress (Daisey Duke-Dukes of Hazzard)
1954 Janis Gill, Torrance Cal, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
1954 Ron Howard, American actor and director
1955 Jimmy Fortune, Newport News Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
1956 Balwinder Singh Sandhu, cricketer (Sikh pace bowler 1983 World Cup)
1956 Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Lithuania
1956 Mark Todd, UK, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1956 Timothy Daly, American actor (Joe-Wings, Diner, Made in Heaven)
1957 Jon Carroll, Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
1957 Peter Athans, American mountaineer
1958 Bertrand Piccard, Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist
1958 Chosei Komatsu, Japanese conductor
1958 Nik Kershaw, English musician (Wouldn't it be Good)
1958 Wayne B Phillips, cricket wicket-keeper (Australia)
1959 Diamanto Manolakou, Greek politician
1959 Nick Griffin, British far right politician
1960 Alicia Dibos, Lima Peru, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open-4th)
1960 William Bennett, English musician (Whitehouse)
1961 Davis Daniel, Arlington Heights Ill, country singer
1961 Mike Rozier, NFL halfback (Heisman Trophy-1983, Houston, Atlanta)
1962 Bill Leen, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
1962 Mark Gardner, LA California, pitcher (SF Giants)
1962 Melanie Moore, American actress
1963 Arnold Oosterveer, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1963 Barb(ara) Marois, Auburn Mass, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1963 Dan Michaels, American musician and record producer
1963 Magnus Svensson, Leksand Swe, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1963 Maurice Benard, American actor (Sonny Corinthos-General Hospital)
1963 Robert James Affuso, American drummer (Skid Row)
1963 Ron Francis, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Pitts Penguins, Team Canada)
1963 Russell Wong, American actor
1963 Thomas Anders, German singer (Modern Talking)
1963 Tony Castillo, Lara Venezuela, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1964 Clinton Gregory, American country and bluegrass singer-songwriter (Play, Ruby, Play)
1964 Jennifer McCarters, Sevierville Tn, singer (McCarters-The Gift)
1964 Paul Le Guen, French football manager
1965 Booker Huffman, American professional wrestler
1965 Les Miller, defensive end (Carolina Panthers)
1965 Mary Lou Lord, American singer/songwriter
1965 Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
1966 John David Cullum, actor (1776, Sweet Country, Day After)
1966 Luis Sojo, Barquisimeto Venezuela, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1966 Steve Reed, LA California, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1966 Susan Auch, Canadian speed-skater
1967 Aron Winter, Dutch footballer (Ajax, Lazio)
1967 George Eads, American actor
1967 Yelena Afanasyeva, Russian athlete
1968 Salil Ankola, Indian cricketer & Indian TV Actor
1968 Sanjeeva Weerasinghe, cricketer (Test for Sri Lanka v India at 17)
1969 Azam Khan, cricketer (Pakistan ODI batsman 1996)
1969 Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals)
1969 Doug Creek, American baseball player, pitcher (SF Giants)
1969 Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
1969 Vincenzo Esposito, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1970 Lisa Eagen, Harlan Iowa, team handball wing/back court (Olympics-1996)
1970 Ray Crittenden, wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1970 Stuart Thompson, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1971 Allen Johnson, Wash DC, long jumper/110m hurdler (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 Andre Karnebeek, soccer player (FC Twente)
1971 Austin Robbins, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, NO Saints)
1971 Shepherd Clark, Atlanta Ga, figure skater (1994, 97 Eastern Sr champ)
1971 Tim Prinsen, CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 Tyler Hamilton, American cyclist (Olympics-96)
1971 Zahoor Elahi, cricketer (Pakistan opening batsman v NZ 1996)
1972 Omar Daal, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1972 Profail Grier, CFL running back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 Carlo Resoort, Dutch DJ
1973 Chris Webber, American basketball player, NBA forward (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1973 Igor Murin, Trencin CZE, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998)
1973 Jack Davenport, English actor
1973 Ryan Peake, Canadian guitarist (Nickelback)
1974 Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor (Zack-Saved by the Bell)
1974 Shane Harwood, Australian cricketer
1974 Stephen Davis, American football player, running back (Washington Redskins)
1975 Maria Jose Suarez, Miss Universe-Spain (1996)
1976 Dave Malkoff, American TV News Reporter
1976 Maringo Vlijter, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1976 Peter F. Bell, Australian rules footballer
1977 Esther Cañadas, Spanish actress and supermodel
1977 Rens Blom, Dutch athlete
1977 Rod White, Sharon Pa, archer (Olympics-gold-1996)
1978 Alicia Leigh Willis, American actress
1978 Donovan Patton, Guamanian television star
1978 Jensen Ackles, American actor (Days of our Lives)
1980 Abdur Rehman, Pakistani cricketer
1980 Djimi Traoré, Malian footballer
1980 Ron Weasley, British fictional character from the Harry Potter series
1980 Rose VBL Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard
1980 Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
1981 Adam LaVorgna, American actor
1981 Ana Hickmann, Brazilian supermodel
1981 Brad Winchester, American ice hockey player
1981 Will Power, Australian racing driver
1983 Blake Hawksworth, Canadian baseball player
1983 Chris Hackett, English footballer
1983 Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
1983 Elan Sara DeFan, Mexican singer-songwriter
1984 Alexander Steen, Canadian-born Swedish ice hockey player
1984 Anthony Tupou, Australian rugby league footballer
1984 Jacob Lillyman, Australian rugby league footballer
1984 Naima Mora, American model
1985 Andreas Ottl, German footballer
1985 Jeremy Jacob "J" Leman, American Football Player
1986 Jonathan Spector, American soccer player
1987 Ke$ha, American singer
1987 Sammie Bush, American R&B singer ("I Like It")
1988 Katija Pevec, American actress
1988 Trevor Cahill, American baseball player
1989 Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
1989 Sonya Kitchell, American singer
1990 Harry Eden, English actor
1990 Nikolas Tsattalios, Australian soccer player
1994 Justin Bieber, Canadian pop singer (Baby, One Time)
Died on March 1st
589 Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)
965 Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65)
986 King Lothair of France (b. 941)
1131 King Stephen II of Hungary
1131 Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31) (b. 1101)
1233 Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)
1244 Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
1320 Buyantu Khagan, Emperor of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty (b. 1286)
1383 Amadeus VI (Green Earl), earl of Savoy (b. 1334)
1510 Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer, viceroy of India, dies in battle
1535 Bernardo Accolti (Unico Aretino), Italian writer (Virginia) (b. 1465)
1546 George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b. 1513)
1620 Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (Poemata) (b. 1567)
1633 George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583)
1661 Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
1693 Benedict Schultheiss, composer
1697 Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
1706 Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)
1734 Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
1757 Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
1768 Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
1771 Isfrid Kayser, composer
1773 Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian,
1773 Luigi Vanvitelli (Louis van Wittel), Italian architect (b. 1700)
1777 Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (b. 1715)
1788 Orazio Mei, composer
1792 Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
1797 Juan Manuel Olivares, composer
1804 Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer
1817 Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian architect (b. 1744)
1817 Luigi Gatti, composer
1826 J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist
1841 Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
1859 Josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61
1862 Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
1865 Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia
1869 Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, Fr poet (History of Girondins)
1870 Francisco S Lopez, Pres of Paraguay (1862-70)
1875 Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
1879 Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
1884 Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
1892 Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
1896 Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 Vittorio Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1898 George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
1899 Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian MP
1906 José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
1911 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Nobel 1901) (b. 1852)
1912 George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
1914 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
1914 Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer
1918 Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer
1920 John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
1920 Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack (b. 1880)
1921 Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18)
1922 Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
1924 Louise MA, princess of Belgium
1926 Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China)
1928 Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
1928 Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer
1929 Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
1932 Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici)
1932 Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
1933 Uladzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
1936 Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (b. 1871)
1938 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer (Il fuoco), war hero, and politician (b. 1863)
1940 Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
1940 Josef Swickard, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities)
1942 George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain (b. 1882)
1943 Alexandre Yersin, Swiss physician (b. 1863)
1944 Mr. Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
1947 J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
1952 Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
1953 Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher
1958 Giacomo Balla, Italian painter
1962 Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass)
1963 Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1963 Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1964 Sergius Kagen, composer
1965 Boleslav Vomacka, composer
1966 Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
1968 Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette)
1970 Ed(uard) Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren)
1970 Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
1972 Victor Babin, composer
1974 Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
1974 Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte)
1976 Jean Martinon, French conductor/composer
1979 Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women)
1979 Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP)
1979 Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
1980 Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
1980 John Jacob Niles, composer
1980 Wilhelmina, high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
1984 Jackie Coogan, American actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family) (b. 1914)
1985 Eugene List, US concert pianist
1988 Jean Le Poulain, actor (Divine)
1988 Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (3's Stooges, Abbott & Costello) (b. 1907)
1989 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host
1989 Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/dir (Bluejackets)
1989 Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician (b. 1917)
1990 Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist
1991 Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor (Polaroid Camera) (b. 1909)
1991 Katharine Blake, actress (To Have & To Hold)
1991 Scott Huston, composer
1993 Luis Kutner, US co-founder (Amnesty International)
1993 Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail)
1994 Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet
1994 Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/writer
1994 Manmohan Desai, filmmaker
1994 Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer Musician
1994 Walter Kent, US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas)
1995 Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher
1995 Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946)
1995 Vladislav Listyev, Russian television journalist, murdered (b. 1956)
1996 Margaret McKay, politician
2000 Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
2001 Henry Wade, American lawyer (b. 1914)
2005 Peter Malkin, Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
2006 Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
2006 Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
2006 Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)
2006 Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
2008 Raul Reyes, second-in-command of FARC guerrilla (b. 1948)
2010 Kristian Digby, British television presenter and director (b. 1977)
2012 Andrew Breitbart, American conservative blogger and publisher
2013 Bonnie Franklin, American actress
2015 Minnie Minoso, Cuban American baseball player (1st black player for White Socks)
2015 Orrin Keepnews, American Jazz record label executive and producer (Riverside records)
2016 Tony Warren [Anthony McVay Simpson], actor and tv screenwriter (Coronation Street)
2016 Jim Kimsey, American co-founder of AOL
2016 Martha Wright, American actress and singer (South Pacific, The Martha Wright Show)
